Find the next number in the sequence

5 12 24 36 ?

Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy alive has his pack open, and the guy who is dead has his pack closed. What is in the pack?

You are given 16 witch hats. The hats are divided in four different colours – red, blue, green and yellow. Every colour has been assigned to four hats. Now each of the hat will be glued with a label of an arithmetic sign – ‘+’, ‘-‘, ‘x’ or ‘/’. But you can label one sign only once on one colour. In such an arrangement, the hats can be uniquely defined by its colour and symbol.

Can you arrange all the 16 hats in a 4x4 grid in a fashion that no two rows and columns have a repetition of colour or sign?
We have arranged four hats in the below picture to assist you.

Baseball bat and ball cost $100. If the bat cost $99 more than the ball, what is the cost of each?

What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

There is a brick of gold and a brick of iron in a boat (both 10-inch blocks), if they are both dropped into the water which will make the water level higher?

A man escapes from jail using help from his girlfriend. The investigators suspect four girls of being the man's girlfriend.

Out of those four girls, one is his girlfriend who is lying. Two of the girls are completely innocent and are speaking the truth. One of the girls is the man's sister who is helping the girlfriend lie. Following are the statements from all four of them:

Ariana: "Myrna is his girlfriend."
Jane: "Angelina is lying."
Angelina: "Ariana is lying."
Myrna: "Jane is not his sister."

Can you find out who is the man's sister among them?

John is looking at Jenifer, but Jenifer is looking at Jacob. John is married, but Jacob is not.

Is a married person looking at an unmarried person ?

Doctor Alex and a bus driver John are both in love with the same woman named Olivia. The bus driver need to go for a long trip of 10 days, Before he left he gave Olivia 10 apples.

There is a shop where written:
Buy 1 for $1
10 for $2
100 for $3
I needed 999 and still only paid $3. How could this be financially viable for the shop-keeper?